New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-14
HE p1sMIssxs A VETERAN SOLDIER BECAUSE HE

HE DIsMIssEs VETERAN SOLDIER BECAUSE HE
CRIIICIsEs THE FLAG ORDER.
WASHINGTON, july Is tSpecoh.- General Black,
Comm issoner OF Pensions has committed great out
rage upon an el-Union soldier and at the same time
ranged himself where every has suI posed him to
be- on the side of the President in the issuance OF the
flag order. Day bcfore yesterday he peremptorily
dismissed Major Charles E. Behle, special pension
examiner stationed in Cincinnati uptn report tele-
praphed to him that Behle I'D severely criticised the
President for his flag order Without giving Behle
any opportunity of explaining even informing him
that any charges had been made against him Black
telegraphed on Monday afternoon dispatch OF which
the follow ng is the substance:
Your services are dispensed with from this date.
All papers in your charge will be turned to c. o.
Forb~e. Expenses incurred In reaching your home
must not be contracted sitter to-day"
II General Black bad been the Gar Of Russia and
kad been dealing with convict instead of fellow
soldier. he could not have been more hasty or mora
brutal. Major Behle at to Washington,
allied on Con missioner Black, and asked to be in
formed OF the tor his sudden dismissal as he
knew they could not be POLITICAL since he had given
full supp ort to Mr.. Cleveland Black declined to toll
HIM and finally referred him to subordinate who
gave him no satisfaction. Major Bchle was in entire
ignorance tine of his dismissal until he asoer-
tanned IRON ontside parties that he had been reported
from Cincinnati 40 having denounced the President
Tor his flag order. He then recalled that at social
gathering of gentlemen person present had engaged
him in versation about the nag order aud the
Grand ATmy, and DAD 0enOuncel tne iatter 10 rs
made up Of lot of cranks. he had warmly defended
the and said to the who had opened the
conversation that they were very far from being
cranks, and that no VINO hal not served, as the
attacking them had not, could beIn to under
stand how soldiers feel about such matters the flag
order. The man whom he was talking took oherce
and although the occasion private dinner he
either have telegra hed Black or caused him
to be informed Major Bellies conversation.
Behle was Major OF the 18th United ates Colorod
Beavy Artillery. He served two years aud has ao OK
cellent military record. The men who reported HIM
Black known here TO have been busy ence they
telegraphed. circulating exaggerate reports of Major
Bellies talk In arder to justify the action taken by
Black
ARMY AND NAVY INTELLIGENCE.
WARRINGTON. July 13.-The Board on Army Regula-
tons has recommended tn discontinuance of Sunday
dress parades and the retention OF the daily inspection
The report OF tho Board. which is under censdera
ton by the Secretary OF War, also recommends the con-
densation OF the regulations into about oneha Of their
present volume BY o recent decision OF the ieuten-
aLGenera s held that the discretion accorded to
commanders by tie army regulations in dispensing with
dress parsdes only authorizes their omission where the
weather is Indictment the condition Of service such
that the parade impraccable No authority Is given
for their systematic omission particular days Of tho
week.
Captain Rogers Birnle. r.. Ordnance Department. has
been ordered from Washington to Watervliet Arsenal
New-York, public business Captain william ".
Black Corps of Engineers has been ordered from Jack
sonville to Fort Marion on public business.
Coast Survey Assistant Engineer r. NJ
detached from the Chicago Manual Training School and
ordered TO the Trenton Assistant Engineer A Woods
from the Trenton and resignation accepted